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Hamilton College has received a grant from the Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to spotlight the work of filmmaker William Greaves.

What constitutes learning? When does learning happen? Journalist Heather Won Tesoriero ’96 spent a year inside science teacher Andy Bramante’s classroom at Greenwhich High School in Connecticut, examining these overarching questions — and the dynamic, individual lives of teenagers.

A longtime commitment to community service has led Maddy Totman ’20 to the next step on her career path — she will join the national service organization AmeriCorps and teach math at Match Charter School in Boston.

As Lindsey Foster ’20 walked to her Global Shakespeare class earlier this year, she received a call from an unknown number. She answered, only guessing at who might be calling. That’s when she got the news — she had been accepted to Cornell Law School.

It was clear from the first speaker that a Hamilton virtual vigil to honor black lives lost to racism was meant to inspire positive action.

In the spring semester computer science course “Wearable Tech,” students learned how to create fun, useful gadgets that could attach to a variety of items, from hoodies to baseball gloves to plants, to relay information and provide additional services.

President David Wippman co-authored an opinion piece published by The New York Times on June 1 titled How Colleges Can Keep the Coronavirus Off Campus.

After learning about life in Malaysia from students she tutored in nearby Utica, Abby Rosovsky ’20 will head to the Southeast Asian country in January as the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. 

The warm welcome began with a librarian’s flash of inspiration and some deadline grant-writing. She would create a picture book collection that would tell stories about newly arrived residents of the U.S. to travel from library to library.

The Hamilton Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa recently elected 39 members of the Class of 2020: Mackenzie Aldridge, Lillian Behm, Alexandra Blomfield, Laura Boyman, Yueran Ding, Eloise Doubleday, Ariana Giramita, Mercedes Girona, Eliza Glaser-Kshensky, Claire Gordy, Julia Hartnett, Haley Hassell, William Kaback, Jacob Kahn, Janice Kang, Joyce Lee, Kimberly Lifton, Claire Lincoln, Olivia Maddox, Lucas Mangold, Melissa Mouritsen, Christina Naston, Elizabeth O’Keefe, Blayne Oliver, Meghan Pawlik, Julian Perricone, Federico Pollevick, Haley Raphael, Corinne Russell, Ruth Schmidt, Vincent Sorrentino, Aoife Thomas, Micaela Tobin, Matthew Tom, Robert Treadwell, Alayna Trice, Nicholas Walters, and Anna Warrell.